Services Down (sshd, inetd)

What version of Splack are you running? Much of the software in older releases is very dated. If the computer is on a public network, it may have been broken into.

Do you have a monitor and keyboard, or are you using the serial port as a console? If you are using the serial port, you may have accidentally sent a break signal, which will drop your system to the Open Firmware implementation. This will halt the operating system.

The problem could be hardware related, but the startup checks performed by the firmware will usually catch faulty components. You can set your system do to an extended hardware test. Search the web for "diag-switch?=true" for more information.

You will not be able to check a live filesystem. Linux has several safety checks in place to prevent you from doing this. If there is a problem with the filesystem, the system start-up scripts should detect and try to repair the problem at boot time. If you *still* insist on running the check manually, I would suggest booting from either a network image or from CD-ROM. You will be running completely off of a different device and can freely check the hard drive partition for problems.

--Jason

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